Baile an Sceilg to An tSnaidhme, Co. Kerry, Ireland - 31st July 2017

We're only in Ballinskelligs for a single night, but that still leaves half the next day to explore the castle and the old monastery ruins down on the beach. After that, we head up the coast to Sneem. On the first evening in Sneem, we meet up with Philly and Davida and glimpse one of the town's features - a real "ghost estate", or Eastát na Sí (Fairy Estate in Irish). Hundreds of such estates were built during the Celtic Tiger boom, where runaway spending with few controls saw no bounds to developer optimism. They were all swiftly abandoned when the financial crash of 2008 hit, which left around 23,000 houses on 620 ghost estates empty, without tennants or buyers. Many of them have now been demolished but Sneem's Pairc na Solas remains for now, its one-decade-old buildings now being reclaimed by nature or cracking open where they are subsiding back into the bog that was hastily filled to build them on. The whole scene is powerfully apocalyptic in a "28 Months Later" kind of way.